Oh look! I left a cliffhanger; sorry I had to do it. But here's the next chapter of Cloudy Love!
Chap.2 cooking lessons
After I heard voices come in the house, I felt like hiding. I looked like a kid that played in orange mud. I started cleaning up the burned food when I heard Rachel talking. "Oh, yeah, Emma made it here safely and insisted on making dinner. She left the food when the kids were fighting and ran back to get the food out but the food caught on fire and so she poured wine on it without thinking and she almost burned her face If I didn't get her away from it. So I pulled her back and she dropped the pasta on the floor! The whole kitchen is a mess. I sent Mark to get something else for dinner." I nearly went in the other room to complain and yell but as I was about too, footsteps were coming towards the kitchen. I knew when they reached it when I heard gasps and laughter. I didn't dare to turn around. I felt my face was getting hot from embarrassment.
"Sweets, say hello to Ms. Call and Embry". I swear I heard amusement from Rachel as I turned to face them. As I said a gently hello, I wanted to die. When I looked at both of them, my heart completely dropped. The woman was trying not to laugh and the boy who appeared to be like 20 was just chuckling at me. I felt completely uncomfortable. When my gaze met his I almost passed out form embarrassment. He was a gorgeous guy with brown eyes and he was very much muscled. His hair was kind of shaggy and black. The tips kind of curled a bit at the end.
"Embry, why don't you help Emma with cleaning this all up while I go talk to Rachel and see the kids"? As his Mom and Rachel walked away I heard laughing. I looked up to see Embry have an apologetic smile but I ignored him and went back to picking up the pasta and glass.
After a few minutes of silence, Embry broke it. "You're going to cut your hand very easily if you keep doing that, Let me help you". I just simply nodded. His voice was warm and had caring to it. I could feel butterflies in my stomach just by being next to him. When we were halfway done, he began bleeding. "Great I'm bleeding". I looked at his hand and he had a huge gash in it. I took his hand and lead him to the sink as I washed the blood off to reveal the cut. "It's ok, I heal really fast, and it doesn't hurt. I'm fine". He tried reassuring me but it was deep. "The cut is really deep; I thought I was the one to cut myself". I gave him a smirk while I wrapped his hand in a dish towel to stop the bleeding. "Well, If I wasn't nervous then I would have been concentrating. It will heal in like a minute. Trust me?"
I looked at his face and thought twice about what he said. When I was about to reply he caught me off guard by saying "Or do you like holding my hand." I let go of his hand and started mopping the floor. He must have sensed my anger because then he started wiping things down immediately. We cleaned in absolute silence. When we were done I thanked him and went to the stairs to get changed. As I just reached the third step, Rachel calls out "Emma, will you help Embry get cleaned up, he has pasta sauce all over him."
I just simply nodded and got him some of my dad's clothes to borrow. My dad came back ten minutes later with Chinese food. I tried my best to stay out of the conversation the whole time during dinner. My dad noticed my behavior but said nothing. I only looked up when my name was mentioned and tried not to watch Embry scruff down all his food like he hadn't ate in days. After dinner, I washed the dishes and did everything else to not be in the living room with Embry and his mom. After about an hour or so of talking, they finally left. I quickly kissed my sisters goodnight and headed to my room before my dad could say anything.
After showering, I got half way through unpacking; I decided that it was time to sleep. As I lay on top of my bed, I thought of Embry. He was so cute and I completely embarrassed myself! Actually I was just blamed by Rachel but he didn't know that! I felt like crying because he happened to live three houses down from me. As I went through all that happened today and how nothing bad could happen from now on out, I was mistaken. I had school tomorrow and I knew that is certainly going to be a nightmare!